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Welcome to... A Game of X’s and O’s
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789 456 123
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789 456 123 Scoreboard X O Click Here if X Wins Click Here if O Wins
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1 What inventions created great change and industrial growth in the United States?
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1 *Electric lighting and mechanical uses of electricity (Thomas Edison) *Telephone service (Alexander Graham Bell) Home
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2 What factors caused the growth of industry?
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2 *Access to raw materials and energy *Availability of work force due to immigration *Inventions *Financial resources
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3 What are the reasons for the rise and prosperity of Big Business?
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3 *National markets created by transportation advances *Captains of industry *Advertising *Lower-cost production
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4 List are the Captains of Industry with their industry.
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4 John D. Rockefeller, oil; Andrew Carnegie, steel; Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping and railroads; Henry Ford, automobile
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5 List the Postwar changes in farm and city life.
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5 *Mechanization (e.g., the reaper) reduced farm labor needs and increased production. *Industrial development in cities created increased labor needs. *Industrialization provided new access to consumer goods (e.g., mail order).
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6 Why did cities grow and develop?
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6 *Specialized industries, including steel (Pittsburgh) and meat packing (Chicago) *Immigration to America from other countries *Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities
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7 What were the efforts to solve immigration problems?
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7 *Settlement houses, such as Hull House founded by Jane Addams *Political machines that gained power by attending to the needs of new immigrants
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8 What were the challenges faced by cities?
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8 *Tenements and ghettos *Political corruption
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9 What are the examples of Big Business?
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9 Railroad, Oil, and Steel
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